Hello! This is a bonus episode of Lecker from me, a slightly hoarse Lucy Dearlove. This is a very short piece, produced for Table For One, an audio installation I produced during a recent residency at this year's HearSay Audio Arts Festival in beautiful Kilfinane, Ireland. 

There are four stories in total, each one a different tale of eating alone, which visitors to the installation listened to while seated at a specially dressed table for one in the main square of the town. Everyone who shared their story with me has been left anonymous and is only identified by the food they eat alone.

I spoke to more people while working on this project but didn't have space for all the stories I collected - I'm hoping to continue it in some way though. If anyone listening has a story about eating alone that they'd love to share then please do get in touch!

Normal Lecker service will be resumed with a brand new episode next week.

With thanks to Diarmuid, Mary, Daniel, Tereza and all of the HearSay Festival team, and to all of the solo diners too <3

Hello! This is a bonus episode of Lecker from me, a slightly hoarse Lucy Dearlove. This is a very short piece, produced for Table For One, an audio installation I produced during a recent residency at this year's HearSay Audio Arts Festival in beautiful Kilfinane, Ireland. 

There are four stories in total, each one a different tale of eating alone, which visitors to the installation listened to while seated at a specially dressed table for one in the main square of the town. Everyone who shared their story with me has been left anonymous and is only identified by the food they eat alone.

I spoke to more people while working on this project but didn't have space for all the stories I collected - I'm hoping to continue it in some way though. If anyone listening has a story about eating alone that they'd love to share then please do get in touch!

Normal Lecker service will be resumed with a brand new episode next week.

With thanks to Diarmuid, Mary, Daniel, Tereza and all of the HearSay Festival team, and to all of the solo diners too <3

Hello! This is a bonus episode of Lecker from me, a slightly hoarse Lucy Dearlove. This is a very short piece, produced for Table For One, an audio installation I produced during a recent residency at this year's HearSay Audio Arts Festival in beautiful Kilfinane, Ireland. 

There are four stories in total, each one a different tale of eating alone, which visitors to the installation listened to while seated at a specially dressed table for one in the main square of the town. Everyone who shared their story with me has been left anonymous and is only identified by the food they eat alone.

I spoke to more people while working on this project but didn't have space for all the stories I collected - I'm hoping to continue it in some way though. If anyone listening has a story about eating alone that they'd love to share then please do get in touch!

Normal Lecker service will be resumed with a brand new episode next week.

With thanks to Diarmuid, Mary, Daniel, Tereza and all of the HearSay Festival team, and to all of the solo diners too <3

I met chef Marie Mitchell in mid 2017, when I booked her as a guest on another podcast I was producing, in honour of the supper club she was running with her parents, Pop's Kitchen, and was blown away by her charm, food ethics (she takes the sourcing of her ingredients very seriously) and most of all her incredible cooking. She bakes a lemon drizzle cake at her East London flat and talks about the leap of faith it took to start to cook professionally, London Caribbean identity, and why her family has played such an important part in her food education.

Island Social Club is popping up at Curio Cabal in Dalston until the end of 2019 http://islandsocialclub.co.uk/. 

Nyamming 3: Ital Grounding with Denai Moore takes place on 4th April 2019 http://islandsocialclub.co.uk/nyamming-3

Marie and her mum Barbara featured on the episode Sunday Lunch of the Guardian podcast series Let's Eat (hosted by Hersha Patel, produced by Lucy Dearlove). The episode was nominated for a 2018 Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink Award https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/audio/2017/sep/08/lets-eat-sunday-lunch-the-changing-face-of-british-mealtimes-podcast

Illustation by Ben McDonald

Saima Thompson, née Arshad, was one of my guests on the very first episode of Lecker back in late 2016 when I interviewed her and her mother Nabeela in their restaurant Masala Wala Cafe. 

Last year, aged just 29, Saima was diagnosed with incurable Stage 4 lung cancer. I met her again, this time to talk about living with cancer and how running a restaurant fits in with her diagnosis.

Please note that as well as discussion around cancer this episode also mentions miscarriage.

Produced and hosted by Lucy Dearlove

Saima Thompson blogs at curryandcancer.com and you can find her on Twitter and Instagram @curryandcancer.

You can listen to Lecker episode 1: Masala Wala with Saima and Nabeela here.

Masala Wala Cafe serves delicious home-cooked Pakistani food in Brockley, South East London.

Saima's Facebook support group for black, Asian and minority ethnic cancer patients can be found here. 

Saima recently appeared on the BBC Sounds podcast You, Me and the Big C on the episode About Cultures.

Music: Blue Dot Sessions - OneEightFour

Welcome to a brand new series of Lecker! We're in NYC for this first episode (South Brooklyn to be exact) as I meet Aysen Gerlach, an artist and cheesemonger whose illustrated food memoir Food Stuff caught my eye in the MoMA PS1 bookstore. She makes me bacon, egg and cheese on a biscuit as we talk baking tricks, the significance of breakfast sandwiches to East-Coasters and how she came to make a book about her life in food.

Produced and hosted by Lucy Dearlove

Featuring Aysen Gerlach https://www.aysengerlach.com/. Find Aysen on instagram @mediabitch and @mediadish

Find physical stockists for Food Stuff here and you can also buy online https://aysengerlach.storenvy.com/

Here's a few things featured in the episode:

Biscuit recipe from the Cafe Sucre Farine https://thecafesucrefarine.com/ridiculously-easy-buttermilk-biscuits/

Food in Studio Ghibli 

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/01/studio-ghiblis-most-iconic-meals.html

Central Park Bagel, Philadelphia (Steak, egg and cheese)

https://goo.gl/maps/hK3atFc5NFN2

The Physiology of Taste - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.”

Music: Blue Dot Sessions - Patched In

This episode is a Toast to Thom Eagle, the food writer, author and chef. Thom and Lucy talk vinegar pickles vs lactofermentation, Thom's new book and his top 5 pickles of all time.

Thom's book First, Catch is published by Quadrille on 5th April http://www.hardiegrant.com/uk/publishing/bookfinder/book/first_-catch-by-thom-eagle/9781787131477

Thom is head chef at Little Duck | The Picklery in Dalston https://www.littleduckpicklery.co.uk/

You can find him on twitter and insta @thomeagle and read his blog at thomeagle.com

Find us on Twitter and Instagram @leckerpodcast

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, LOVERS AND LISTENERS.

A Valentine's special: Laura Silver prepares a romantic meal in her Peckham kitchen.

Laura is a news reporter for Buzzfeed. You can find her on Twitter @laurafleur.

Nigella Lawson's Lamb Shank For One is in her classic book Feast https://www.nigella.com/books/feast

Music from Joe Bagale and Bird Creek via YouTube Music Library.

Toast (as in 'propose a') is a new monthly Lecker offshoot raising a glass to great and diverse food projects and enterprises. 

In the first Toast, Lucy meets Riaz Phillips, a London-based photographer and writer whose book Belly Full was released last year. It's a celebration of Caribbean food history and culture in the UK told through photographs of and interviews with people who run a selection of restaurants, takeaways, shops and factories.

Over lunch Riaz explained how the book came out of posting pictures of his food online and why it's important to document and celebrate the stories of Caribbean food entrepreneurs especially since mainstream food culture tends to omit them.

Location: Smokey Jerky (158 New Cross Road) / Lucy's living room

Food: large mixed jerk lamb and pork with rice and peas (Riaz), small jerk lamb with rice and peas (Lucy - I normally get large there and regretted the small!)

You can buy Belly Full at https://www.tezetapress.com/

Follow Riaz @riazphillips on Twitter and Instagram.

Some food entrepreneurs that Riaz rates:

Sudanese Kitchen http://www.sudanesekitchen.com/

Original Flava http://originalflava.com/

The Groundnut http://www.thegroundnut.co.uk/GROUNDNUT/HOME.html

A few places Riaz likes to eat:

Horizon Foods Roti (Tottenham)

Peppers and Spice (Tottenham, Dalston)

Tottenham Town Bakery (Seven Sisters)

Roti Stop (Stoke Newington)

Rudies (Dalston)

Chaconia (Deptford)

Roti Joupa (Clapham)

Hilltop (Ealing)

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